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Tracked now: 24 incidents, 19 disclosures, 5 critical. Most repeated risk: Observability. Latest evidence: 8 July 2026.

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JetBrains: IDE plugin supply-chain key theft pattern
19 June 202684%2 sources
Malicious IDE plugins exfiltrating API keys highlight a toolchain gap in MSP and enterprise AI security reviews.
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Y Combinator: Autonomous agent bankruptcy — DN42 operator cost overrun
18 June 202684%2 sources
Forensic record of an autonomous agent deployment that exhausted operator funds when spend governance and circuit breakers were absent.
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OpenAI multi-service outage (2026-05-29)
29 May 202686%3 sources
Production AI Institute incident record tracking a multi-service outage affecting OpenAI API consumers on 2026-05-29. See referenced sources for the official status timeline; PSF impact is mapped to provider fallback and observability domains.
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OpenAI Multi-Service Outage (ChatGPT, Login, Access)
29 May 202680%2 sources
On 29 May 2026 OpenAI's public status history recorded four separate incidents the same day affecting ChatGPT conversations, login and account creation, ChatGPT access, and business subscription checkout. Teams routing production workloads through a single OpenAI dependency experienced correlated f…
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Reuters: Binnall Law Claude Console Phantom Citations in Federal Court
1 Jan 202680%2 sources
Federal counsel used Anthropic Claude Console to draft a May 2026 motion that included quotations not found in the cited cases. The firm apologised to the court and committed to citation verification via established legal research platforms.
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Reuters: Law Firm AI Hallucinated Fake Case Law in Court Filings
1 Jan 202580%2 sources
Reuters reported that major law firms were warning lawyers that AI can invent fake case law and that filing hallucinated citations can trigger sanctions. The issue moved from isolated embarrassment to a repeatable legal-risk pattern as generative AI use spread through litigation teams.
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Zillow iBuying Algorithm Collapse
1 Jan 202180%2 sources
Zillow's algorithmic home-buying programme (Zillow Offers) purchased homes at prices its model predicted would appreciate, then resold them for profit. The model failed to track rapidly changing market conditions in 2021. Zillow found itself holding 9,800 homes worth $2.7 billion, purchased at abov…
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